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Coldest point in coordinate (Posted on 2020-11-01) Difficulty: 2 of 5
In a plane, the point (x,y) has temperature x2+y2-6x+4y. Determine the coldest point of the plane and its temperature.

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Solution Same answer, partial derivatives | Comment 2 of 6 |
As Steve Herman showed, you don't need to resort to taking partial derivatives for this equation to get the answer.  But to illustrate the method, I went through it.

Taking partial derivatives gets the same equations and the same answer in the case of this function.
To take a partial derivative with respect to one variable (of a function of more than one variable), treat all the other variables as if they were constants.

Calling the partial derivative of function f with respect to x: f'x
f'x = 2x - 6
f'y = 2y + 4
setting each to zero gives (x,y) = (3,-2)
plugging (3,-2) into the equation give Temp = -13.

To be sure this is a minimum, we need D>0 and f''xx > 0
where f''xx means the second partial derivative of F with respect to x
and D = (f''xx) * (f''yy)  -  (f''xy)^2

f''xx = f'x(2x - 6) = 2
f''yy = f'y(2y + 4) = 2
f''xy = f'y(2x - 6) = 0
So D = 4 which is greater than zero
and f''xx = 2 which is greater than zero
So it's a minimum.
(or just check some values slight smaller and larger than x=3 and y=-2 and see that the function then has a slightly larger value than -13)

  Posted by Larry on 2020-11-01 18:14:25
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